Table: India's mobile phone customer base falls 21.9 mln in March

Videocon Industries (India)

21/05/2019 10:54

May 21 (Reuters) - India's mobile phone customer base fell
1.85%, or a net 21.9 million, to 1.16 billion in March, data
released by the country's telecoms regulator showed on Tuesday.
    Following is a table of mobile phone subscriptions in India,
the world's second-biggest wireless market by number of users,
as of March 31.
    
 COMPANY                       CHANGE (MLN)   TOTAL USERS (MLN)
 Bharti Airtel                     -15.1            325.2
 Vodafone Idea                     -14.5            394.8
 Reliance Jio                       9.5             306.7
 Bharat Sanchar Nigam              -0.6             115.7
 Reliance Communications          -0.0001           0.02
 Tata Teleservices                 -1.2             15.9
 BSNL VNO                          0.04             0.08
 MTNL                              -0.01             3.5
 
 NOTE:
    * Active mobile subscribers in March were 1.02 billion.
    * Mobile connections per 100 people, or the tele-density of
wireless subscribers, were 88.46 as of March 31. The mobile
tele-density in urban areas was 155.49, compared with 57.13 in
rural areas.
    * In March, 5.30 million mobile subscribers opted to change
their service providers through mobile number portability. India
is divided into 22 telecommunications service zones.
    * Total broadband connections were 563.31 million, as of
end-March. There were 544.89 million broadband users through
mobile phones and dongles, while 18.42 million were using
broadband through wirelines. Internet connections with a minimum
download speed of 512 Kbps are considered as broadband in India.
    * The number of fixed-phone line subscribers dropped to
21.70 million by end-March from 21.72 million at the end of
February.
    * Including fixed-phone lines, India had 1.18 billion phone
users as of March 31, or a total tele-density of 90.11.
    
   Source text: https://bit.ly/2HGs4EE

 (Compiled by Arnab Paul in Bengaluru; Editing by Subhranshu
Sahu)
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